BSR | Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar
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» Engage external organizations and users to better understand
misinformation and disinformation tactics deployed in Myanmar.
» If established, provide evidence to international mechanisms created
to investigate violations of international human rights.
» Assist civil society organizations in raising awareness of opportunities
for victims to access remedy.
Systemwide Change
Public policy, digital
literacy, capacity building,
and counter hate speech
» Integrate human rights considerations into advocacy efforts aimed at
policy, legal, and regulatory reform in Myanmar and the ASEAN
region.
» Continue to participate in the Unicode transition campaign.
» Introduce innovations on the Facebook platform that increase the
digital and media literacy of users in Myanmar.
» Continue to invest in partnerships aimed at improving digital and
media literacy in Myanmar.
» Continue to invest in partnerships aimed at creating and disseminating
“counter hate speech” content in Myanmar.
» Continue to invest in partnerships aimed at improving the capacity of
human rights organizations.
» Bring the Facebook Journalism Project and Fact Checking Initiative to
Myanmar.
Risk Mitigation and
Opportunity
Enhancement
» Create multiple scenarios for how the human rights context may
evolve in Myanmar and generate approaches capable of addressing
multiple scenarios.
Preparing for future
developments and
undertaking deeper dive
investigations into specific
human rights risks and
opportunities
» Prepare for the possibility that WhatsApp will be more commonly used
in Myanmar.
» Develop a risk-mitigation plan for Myanmar’s 2020 parliamentary
elections.
» Explore opportunities to develop new Facebook products and services
that accelerate the development of the digital economy in Myanmar.
» Bring #SheMeansBusiness to Myanmar.